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I've just finished a new WRC/Curly Mahogany OO-13 which I thought you might like to see. This is a small bodied guitar which uses the same plantilla as my main Torres classical, FE19, it is the third of this type I've made recently and is my most asked for steel string style of guitar. This one is for a guy who is mainly an electric player, he plays bluesy guitar in a local band, but wanted a guitar to play unplugged. He liked my old WRC/mahogany guitar so that was the combination we settled on.

It follows my usual construction methods. This is the fourth guitar I have made using this curly mahogany, and I only have one set left .

Top: WRC
B&S: Curly mahogany
Neck: Mahogany with ebony/pear/ebony stripe
Binding, Rosette, Headplates: Curly maple
FB, Bridge: Madagascan rosewood
Purfling: b/pear/b, curly mahogany
Finish: oil varnish



















As I said the guy is mainly an electric player, so remembering the intellectual gradation of players (flat picker>electric player>banjo player>finger style steelstring player>classical player>lute player) As he is fairly low down in the evolutionary scale, I thought I should break the habit of a lifetime and give him at least a couple of fret markers . Anyway, I didn't want to just stick them on the front face so I decided to inlay bone into the side with the bone also showing on the face at the 5th and 12th.





Enjoy,

Colin

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Look's great!!!!!!

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very nice Colin. I really like the fret markers.

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Wow...drool...


dang.

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Sweet!

What a beauty, Colin!

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Stunning! I really like the colors. It has a classic simple beauty.

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Another lovely guitar! I always like your instruments. Were you the one who found this nice figured mahogany in some old window sills or am I mis-remembering that?

Ah Colin, it does me heart good to see another one of your guitars.
Great color scheme as always, and that mahogany is to-die-for. 1 set left, huh?
That's a shame. But surely you're also running low on pear, no? Seems a constant, and recognizable, feature on your instruments.
In fact, because of all these guitars you've posted with pear wood accents, I went and ordered a fair bit myself.
It is lovely, and it pairs (sorry) so well with that mahog.

Good stuff mate,

Steve

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i never really understood why it is illegal to have position indicators on classical guitars.....but then again, i am basically an electric guy !
beautiful guitar; looks like a wide nut for a steel string. just wondering, what tuners are those, and are they compatible with classical strings? reason i ask is, i began work on a classical style neck, and i am afraid the "ganged" rollers may not all want to line up perfectly. i like the individual tuners.
that headstock is so crisp and clean and perfect! dayum...

Beautiful once again. I really like that 13 fret classical guitar combination. Super mahogany too!

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Thanks everyone, I'm glad that you seem to like it. My ambition always, when making a guitar, is to get a 'Dang' from the great Don, so job done!

Steve, I think in the 40+ steel string guitars I've made now, they have all had pear wood in them somewhere, I just like the colour and the way it blends with the wood pallete that I like. Funnily it only rarely appears in my classicals, though I use it a lot on my lutes.

Lex, yes I did get a lot of really nice mahogany from my neighbour's window frames, I posted a guitar made from it (including the top) some time back. This mahogany though is from a lump I bought about 15 years ago and resawed. The neck is from an old Victorian bed frame though. In the flesh, under finish, it has the most astounding 'glow', it really shimmers in the light. I wouldn't swap my last set for the very best BRW you could find, but then mahogany is a much better wood for steel strings.

Nyazzip, I don't really like fret markers on any guitar, though I do use them on my CS336 electrics, as they are for electric players. I think it's just a matter of learning the fretboard.

Anyway, thanks everyone.

Colin

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Dang!

Dang-da-Dang-Dang!


Colin, That Madrose looks incredible. How do you like it compared to BRW for bridges and fretboards? I have a *little bit* of this stuff, but as yet haven't used it on anything.

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Absolutely gorgeous! Amazing mahogany!


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Hold it now. Who's on top? Lute or flat picker?

That's a little beauty. Very elegant. Is that your run of the mill cut, peal and stick clear pick guard? If so, any advice on cutting them. I always seem to get at least some of the cut areas that have a bit of a ridge leaving them looking less than perfect unlike your's which look perfect.

Thanks,
Danny

Don, I've used Madagascan on quite few guitars for the bridge and FB, The stuff I'm using at the moment is from the batch that LMI had about ten years ago. It's getting difficult to find the good wood now, I did get a new batch from a different US supplier recently which was very dissapointing. I think that if you have good Madrose it is every bit as good as most BRW, though I do have a batch of 'Old Rio' rosewood that came into the UK in the mid 1800s that is my very favourite bridge wood. It was in a billet big enough for B&S sets, but I cut it for bridges and fingerboards as I feel that is the best use for good BRW. But yes, good Madrose is as good as most BRW, I tend to choose between the two now based purely on the colour match with the rest of the guitar.

Colin

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Danny, I think you can guess from my avatar which is on top of the pile! But don't worry the flat pickers and electric players won't be able to read this

The pickguard is the standard Stew Mac stick on. I keep a pair of very sharp scissors just to cut this stuff, any hint of dull scissors will leave a raised edge on the guard.

Colin

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Very nice, as usual, Colin. I always look forward to seeing your work.

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any pics of the bracing ?

looks great -

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Beautiful, Colin... It would be interesting to see that guitar with a spruce top and in my living room

And a sunburst.

And an abalone rosette.

And...in MY living room.



Steve

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I didn't take any pictures of the bracing on this one, but this is a picture of the same bracing used on a London Plane/WRC one I made last year. All of the braces are inlet to each other where they touch, the A-brace passes through open appertures in the UTB and is inlet into the headblock. The lower legs of the X-brace are not inlet into the linings, but are shaved to finish just shot of them.



Colin

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That's spooky Steve, do you know in my original plans for this one it had a sitka top with a sunburst, and an abalone rosette and purfling plus an abalone vine fingerboard inlay. Then I woke up and it had all been a terrible nightmare!
Colin

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Colin - Bravo another cracker !!

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Beautiful guitar as always Colin

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